"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin;

"And when politicians find that honor and character matter less than buying votes and a constituency, that too will herald the end of the Constitution. When that happens we must work tirelessly to change their minds, or their occupation!" - Hoping The Blind Will See

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Distinguished Senator From Massachusetts?

I don't know the author of this article, but thought I would post it in hopes of allowing some semblance of truth to cut through the biased accolades of the so called media. As a recovering citizen of Massachusetts, I can attest that Senator Kennedy was not all he is being made out to be....

The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty

As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the “canonization” of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a
"great American" he is.

I say, let's get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into
the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles
per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was
never revoked...

Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed..

Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts ..

At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond..

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead
Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.

Kopechne's family received a small pay out from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills... a "token of friendship"?

8. Kennedy has held his Senateseat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of “what’s right". What a pompous ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American". “A blonde in every pond” is his motto.

Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is. Let’s keep this going for truth, justice and the American way.

Marco Rubio - Ready To Lead America

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I grew up with black & white TV that had only 3 channels. I grew up with the ability to ride my bike anywhere in town, on my own, from the age of 10 on. I grew up in a neighborhood where all the moms were stay at home. I grew up just after the innocent '50's, when america still held strong ideals, knew she was the greatest nation on earth, was proud of that fact, and was also proud that citizens from all over the world struggled to come here because she was the one true bastion of liberty, where any dream could be realized if those that came here worked hard enough. I grew up when prayer was still allowed in school - and no one cared that it was. I grew up when we, as a nation, were trying to unite the country - remember the Civil Rights movement? When did we decide to start fragmenting it? And why? I grew up when Americans took pride in being an American. I pray that God lay His hand once again on this fine nation, and provide His blessing to return her to her former glory!

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QUOTES

"From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune" - Tecumseh

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals...it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only conduct of the government...it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." - Philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

I proudly declare my independent Conservatism publicly. I am not now, nor have I ever been embarrassed to hold my head high and tell the progressive collectivists to kiss off. Thomas Jefferson still has my back, and he has yours as well. Principles such as Jefferson stood for last an eternity. Rational thought cannot be destroyed, no matter how feverishly the progressive collectivists might try. - Left Coast Rebel

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

"The budget should be balanced,
the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled,
and the assistance to foreign lands should
be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero, 55 BC

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them." --Thomas Jefferson

"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill

"Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore CHOOSE LIFE that you and your descendants may live!” - Deuteronomy 30:19

"A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty." - George Washington about the two-party system

Ronald Reagan Quotes

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' - Theodore Roosevelt 1907

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Sam Adams

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” - Daniel Webster

United States Marine Corps Quotes

"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot; it will succeed where diplomatic management would fall: it is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest its progress: it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer. - Thomas Paine (Agrarian Justice, Part 3)

These last four quotes are scary

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. - Bill Clinton August 12, 1993

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day, America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened”.-Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist party. [Two Worlds, Flick-Reedy Education Enterprises, Bensenville, IL, 1966, page 90 & page 152]

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... - Bill Clinton March 1, 1993, during a press conference in Piscataway , NJ. USA Today, March 11, 1993

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me, as we try to change it." - Barack Obama